Author Guidelines
Review Process
Manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those meeting the aims and scope of the journal will be sent for outside review. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two referees. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible.
Interdisciplinary STEM Education has a fully submission based review system. This system offers authors the option of tracking by submission based review process of their manuscripts. https://www.editorialpark.com/istemeducation
Peer Review Policy
Interdisciplinary STEM Education operates a strictly blinded peer review process in which the reviewer's name is withheld from the author and the author's name from the reviewer.
Review Process: Manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those meeting the aims and scope of the journal will be sent for outside review. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two referees. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible.
HOW TO PREPARE MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscript Presentation
The journal's language is English. British English or American English spelling and terminology may be used, but either one should be followed consistently throughout the article. Manuscripts should not exceed for qualitative studies 60 pages and for quantitative studies 50 pages of printed text, including references, tables and figures. The manuscript should be modified APA Referencing System. References should follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), Seventh Edition (2020) style in alphabetical order. For more information about APA style, visit https://apastyle.apa.org/ and https://apastyle.apa.org/blog
General Principles
Text Organization:
All text should be 12-point - Times New Roman.
All text should be double-spaced.
All text should be ragged-right.
Figures and Tables should be after the references.
The FIRST PAGE of the manuscript should be contain;
- running head (shortened title)
- title
- author(s)
- affiliation(s)
It is also essential that the full postal address, telephone, fax and email coordinates be given of the author who will receive editorial correspondence, offprints and proofs.
The SECOND PAGE should be contain;
Abstract
Please provide a short abstract of 100 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain ANY undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Key Words
Please provide 3 to 5 key words or short phrases in alphabetical order.
Figures
All photographs, graphs and diagrams should be referred to as a Figure and they should be numbered consecutively (1, 2, etc.). Multi-part figures ought to be labeled with lower case letters (a, b, etc.). Please insert keys and scale bars directly in the figures. Relatively small text and great variation in text sizes within figures should be avoided as figures are often reduced in size. Figures may be sized to fit approximately within the column(s) of the journal. Provide a detailed legend (without abbreviations) to each figure, refer to the figure in the text and note its approximate location in the margin. Please place the legends in the manuscript after the references.
Tables
Each table should be numbered consecutively. In tables, footnotes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table. Such explanatory footnotes, identified by superscript letters, should be placed immediately below the table. Please provide a caption (without abbreviations) to each table, refer to the table in the text and note its approximate location in the margin. Finally, please place the tables after the figure legends in the manuscript.
- Figures and tables should have their positions clearly marked and be provided after the references in the main text.
Notes
Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Notes should be indicated by consecutive superscript numbers in the text and listed at the end of the article before the References. A source reference note should be indicated by means of an asterisk after the title. This note should be placed at the bottom of the first page.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References.
Appendices
Supplementary material should be collected in an Appendix.
Quotations
Quotations less than three lines long should be incorporated into the text using double quotation marks. For longer quotations (more than three lines or two sentences), use 'Quotation' style in the styles menu.
Copyright
Pure Open Access Journals allow the author to retain the copyright in their articles. Articles are instead made available under a Creative Commons licence (usually Attribution-Only, or CC-BY) to allow others to freely access, copy and use research provided the author is correctly attributed.
Proofs
A proof will be sent to the corresponding author.
Page Charges and Color Figures
No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions except for color pages.
Permission
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for a quotation from unpublished material, or for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in copyright, and for the reprinting of figures, tables or poems from unpublished or copyrighted material.